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MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Gunmen have killed nine Mexican police officers and wounded another in an ambush in Guerrero, a southwestern state beset by a crime wave from its Acapulco resort to its rural mountains, prosecutors said Wednesday. View the full article

MADRID (AFP) - Spanish police said Wednesday they had seized 4. View the full article

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) is gearing up for their Spring Conference to be held May 14--17, 2013 in Orlando, Florida. ASCP is proud to announce professional ... View the full article

Researchers believe their research of 160 stroke patients shows cannabis users are 2.3 times more likely to have a stroke than other patients. The study of 160 stroke and mini-stroke victims, aged between 18 and 55, was presented to a stroke conference in Hawaii this week. It showed they were 2.3 times more likely than other patients to have cannabis detected in urine tests. But the association is confounded because all but one of the stroke patients who were cannabis users also used tobacco regularly. View the full article

It makes most people a little foggy-headed, but scientists are investigating whether an active ingredient in cannabis could actually stave off dementia. View the full article

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The medical marijuana shop next to a tattoo parlor on a busy street in Los Angeles looks much like hundreds of other pot dispensaries that dot the city. Except for one thing: On the glass door - under a green cross signaling that cannabis can be bought there for medical purposes - is a sticker for the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), the nation ... View the full article

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., announced that he introduced legislation on Tuesday that would de-federalize marijuana and create a framework for federal taxation of cannabis. The bill, that was co-sponsored by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., would follow Colorado's model of regulating marijuana like alcohol. Here are the details. View the full article

A TOOWOOMBA man who was a “crop sitter” for a 51-plant marijuana crop growing inside a water tank will be subject to random drug testing for the next 18 months. View the full article

HUNDREDS of marijuana plants have been discovered in a family home by firefighters responding to a call for help. View the full article

* Bills would regulate marijuana, impose federal tax-lawmakers * Effort follows legalization in Washington state, Colorado WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - U.S. states would be free todecide whether to legalize marijuana without running afoul offederal law but would require purchasers to pay federal taxes onits sale under legislation being proposed by two Democraticlawmakers. The proposed bills in ... View the full article

International Researchers to Teach Washington D.C. Health Professionals about Medical CannabisWASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health professionals in the nation's capital will soon be able to earn education credits for learning about medical marijuana. A certified medical education program called "Cannabis in Medicine: A Primer for Health Care Professionals" will take place ... View the full article

LOS ANGELES -- MediSwipe Inc. (www.MediSwipe.com) , a patient security solutions and financial products company for the medicinal marijuana and health care industry, today announced that the Company has ... View the full article

Irvine, CA. Terra Tech Corp. (OTCBB: TRTC) The nation’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, announced today that it has officially launched its line of second-generation digital environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture.Irvine,Ca (PRWEB) February 05, 2013 Irvine, CA. Terra Tech Corp. (OTCBB: TRTC) The nation’s first medical marijuana-friendly ... View the full article

The California Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on whether local governments can ban retail pot dispensaries within their borders, a question that could lead to the medical marijuana ... View the full article

Vanilla Ice urges teen sensation Justin Bieber to avoid the trappings of success. View the full article